Since this seems to be the most used topic for the admins I'm reposting my question here.

I'm trying to figure things out. Let me say maybe it's my system but the game I was playing was so slow it slowed my body system down. Oooh!! So I was playing Zelda II AoL and after taking forever to amass leve 3 EPs and 2 points shy of 1000 I had just killed the Ironknuckle guarding the Candle when my game just vanished and the list of games screen came in. That was yesterday, today pretty much the same thing happened. Only this time it was LoZ and after dying the Save/ Continue/Reset screen came up and after hitting SAVE it froze. and Here I am... ticked again. I included mycomp stats yesterday so that you know what I'm working with. I want to add... I think the problem is within this site not my comp. I say that because there is a site called "80s Arcade" that also offers retro games and I can play a game there just like on my system. The problem in that site is the save system utterly fails even with a reg user and there seems to be noo admins. The site is also called Tripletsandus.com or something like that. (Btw, I thinks it's so inconsiderate to have a site and ignore your patrons.

So a big question I have for here is this: Rather clarification. When you say press F1 etc, you are talking about the top row of keys right not pressing the "F" and thee "1" together. And you're saying do this sometime after you begin playing the game. Then press F2 shortly after. Now hwat happens when you press F2? Will the screen change or is this an enternal thing. You def need a universal SAVE BUtton for all games or a pop up window after each game like Mega Man or something. Give us a code to punch in.

Is that normal? Are these just demos to get us to download the game or can we play the entire game from the page? Also can you please speed up the Zelda II game to play like it should. And PLEASE, PLEASE darken the typeface. It's like looking into the sun. Thanks!

Is there a chance of getting email notification of new posts? I guess I'm spoiled by the 21st Century. Another BTW... is that "Are you a real person" code really necessary. It's often hard to tell what the heck the characters are, esp for someone like me with vision problems. And the audios are usually worse.

Oh man! I have to use a magnifying glass and lean in to read this type. Please make it darker.

I live on the east coast USA. MD...Do you mean that thing isn't suppose to be seen? I couldn't post without inputting a code.

Well let m ask everyone this. I have played 3 of the NES games and all three were really slow... they work but they're slow; does anyone else have that problem?

Also Admin... I somehow got a game to be put into the Games I've Played tag, however, it comes up without my info. So I am appealing to not necessarily the admins, but to anyone who would like to explain from A to Z how we play a game then SAVE it. Then exit the site and come back later and play that game from where you left off or at least with all the data saved. Playing the games shouldn't be this difficult.

Please give a tutorial, oh and don't assume we know what you know. Odds are I for one don't. So don't l omit the least thing. THANKS!!

I forgot to mention... About the F1 key I guess. Someone made reference to this before... when I press the F1 key my AOL Help screen opens. As for F2 and F3 I thing F2 paused my game and F3 turned it gray. There def needs to be a more uniform way to save these games and data amassed.

I did post my comp spec even gave the model of my comp if you wanted to check out all the fine pts. Please don't ask me to load other browsers. As I mentioned here before... there is a site called 80s Arcade where I have played Legend of Zelda just like on my NES. So It may have been a bit faster but faster is better than this slow speed.

I guess your site and my comp just clash. No other site runs slow like yours.

Okay, I get dif sites dif setups... however, my comp is suppose to have both javascript and adobe flash loaded. You know having Windows I'm also locked in with MSN Games. And their members are always posting and whining, as am I, about the games not working properly. So they're always giving new instructions on how to get them working.

One way is to lower the Security from Medium/High to just Medium and clearing the Cache. I do that and yeP, the game can be played. Trouble with that: I have to do that each time I restart my comp. So it becomes annoying. My question to them then becomes, instead of all the bells and whistls, why not take the games back to a simpler time when everyone could play them. Sort of like MySpace and now Twitter, change isn't necessarily a good thing. Often it's just a nuisance.

The site is really great for lodies lovers but all the hassles make it not worth it. There needs to be more detailed info on how to SAVE, how to retrieve a Saved Game, and whether or not you also need to do the F1 and F2 thing each time you select SAVE while playing. I mean otherwise it just seems as though you save only up to the point where you first saved. And indeed my only game I managed to save when I do get back in only has the beginning where I have only 3 hearts. It's annoying to have to keep doing the same thing. Groundhog's Day.

With so many people who play here only the ADMINS takes the time to help players. I'm so spoiled by sites where users can't wait to help other users.

Admins I got that... really I do. But that doesn't explain my queries fully. For example: If I do the freeze and load as soon as I get say the 1st sword in Legend of Zelda. and after freezing and loading(supposedly) As I play the game I may die in play and the Save/Continue screen will come up. After Saving, do I do the F1 and F2 again? And every subsequent time; and will I have to die if I want to save my progress if I reach level 8.? OR... does my 1st freeze and load SAVE everytime I die even If I end the game without going to the Save/Continue Screen?

And when we leave and come back to the MSG prompt should my game contain up to the last time I saved in game? If so why is it that each time I always have to start with 3 hearts and get that 1st sword AGAIN? Because that's what happens.

Also admins... as I use IE and AOL... I simply can't use the F1 button to freeze. So for me, the F3 button freezes and I guess the F2 button loads. Thinking that to be true and how I saved LOZ... why doesn't the same thing work with LoZ:AoL? I thought for sure I had that game saved and was terribly disappointed to click on MSG and only LoZ was in there.

I'll give this another go.

And I haven't forgotten you said wait for IE work up. The LoZ:AoL is one of my fave Zelda games and if it was in 80s Arcade I'd prolly play it there. I have the game and the NES here but I'm at my comp a lot so I would like to be able to play and save it here. Even though I can't save in 80s Arcade. The site is abandoned by admins.

Sounds good Admins... thanks. I just wish I could figure out why the F3 and F1 buttons saved LOZ... you know what... I'm not even sure it was the F3 and F2. But I know the F1 wasn't involved because it always brings up AOL HELP . Last night I tried to save another game withe the F3 and F2 and never (man this color is murder on my vision.) hitting them again just saving in game and leaving. It didn't work. I'll keep trying to figure it out.

Thanks again for making the site more user friendly for all browsers.

Questions: Do you think IE is the more used browser? I ask because of Microsoft and windows. Its their browser of cjoice isn't it. And isn't windows the most used software or most pre-loaded?

I don't know why I never asked this before. When you hit F2 and the game is suppose to load... what happens on the screen? Are we suppose to see the load bar or does nothing happen at all? Crazy, I never asked that. When I just started a new game of LOZ and tried saving, with F3 the screen flashed gray. You barely knew it was gray. But with F2 to load nothing happen on the screen immediatley, but the game reset to those 3 hearts and even though I had gotten the sword and named all three files when the game came back onely one file was named and Link was sans sword.

This is why it is vital to know exactly when to freeze and when to load. I'll try again... BTW... what is the character limit on these post?

Is there a way to bring up the previous saved game. Like for example i was playing summon night sword craft and i clicked saved game before the fight began. However i kept losing the fight because i was not equipped with the proper equiepement and i was not at a high enough level. Therefore i am stuck in the game and can not go back to the previous save i did which was prior to the fight. Help! So the question is, are there more then one save files in the game or is it all just one. Meaning once you save thats it you cant go back to that previous save game before saving the one you currently have.

Only one saved game (save state) per user and per game. This is because they are stored on the server, and I keep back 3 copies of your saved states so we can rollback if you do some mistake (save instead of load, bad move in game,...).